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The first ARPANET link was established between UCLA and the Standford Research Intitute.
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The first electronic message was sent between two computers by Ray Tomlinson.
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The term “Internet” was coined by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine at Stanford University
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Ethernet was invented by Robert Metcalf. Introduced commercially in 1980
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TCP/IP Becomes the standard for comunicating between computers on over the internet.
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Paul Mockapetris creates the Domian Name System at the University of California.
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[First Domain](www.symbolics.com) First commercial internet domain name registered by symbolics.com
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The first computer worm was released on the internet by Cornell student Robert Morris.
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First Dial-Up service provider was "The World"
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The internet now has 2.6 million users. 73% of those users were living in the United States and 15% were living in Europe. The only other countries with internet access at the time were Canada, Japan, Australia, Korea, and Israel.
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The World Wide Web (what we know as "www.") opened to the general public. Creator Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the project on alt.hypertext newsgroup.
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Tripod opened as comminity online for college students and young adults
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CERN donated the WWW technology to the world.
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Mosaic, what becomes the most popular web browser upon the realease of the World Wide Web to the public, is released. Also described as the first graphical web browser.
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Anyone can create a website with Yahoo! GeoCities.
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Classmates.com emerges as a way to keep up with old high school buddies.
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The web has one million sites
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AOL launches its instant messaging service.
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SixDegrees.com, a social networking site is launched.
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Google becomes a registered search engine and index
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Napster, a peer-to-peer file sharing network, is introduced. Napster was generally used to share audio MP3 files amongst users, generally music. The sharing of music raised issues of copywrite infrignement and eventually ceased P2P sharing and later became an internet music store.
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched the website that had first been imagined by Rick Gates 1993.
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Intially offering only 250 million images as compared to the 10 billion plus images that can currently be found there.
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iTunes iTunes was developed by Bill Kincaid and orginally launched in 1999 by Casady & Greene. It was renamed and revamped starting in 2000 when Apple, Inc. purchased it.
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LinkedIn LinkedIn was created in December 2002, but did not launch until May 2003. It is a business-oreinted networking service.
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Second Life Second Life was developed by Linden Lab in 2003. It is a virtual place where users can interact through avatars.
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MySpace The social network MySpace was launched by founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.
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Facebook The social network Facebook was launched by founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Gmail Google developer, Paul Buccheit, started Gmail as a project in 2001. Google finally released the software to the public in 2004.
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Developed by Blizzard Entertainment and originally launced 10 years after the first game in Warcraft franchise.
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Facebook Facebook reaches 1 Million users 10 months after launching
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YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
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Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation.
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Google puchased YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was launched.
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Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc.
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Apple released first IPhone which allowed for social media applications to be used from cellular device.
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Pandora Internet Radio (also known as Pandora Radio or simply Pandora) is a music streaming and automated music recommendation service that serves as "custodian" of the Music Genome Project.
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Google Chrome is a freeware web browser[9] developed by Google. It used the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond uses the WebKit fork Blink.
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Foursquare is a location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check in" at venues using a mobile website, text messaging or a device-specific application by selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby.
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WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by US Citizens Brian Acton and Jan Koum (also the CEO), both former employees of Yahoo!, and is based in Mountain View, California.[1][2] The company employs 55 people
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Pintrest
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Instagram
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The application was initially launched as Weixin in China in January 2011
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Founded by Jonathan Wegener and Benny Wong
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Google+
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Snapchat was started by Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University
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Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll.
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Google Glass was developed by Google X
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Tinder
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Google Glass became officially available to the general public on May 15th, 2014, for a price of $1500.
